The Recovering Sales Guy

The Recovering Sales Guy

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Norm Eisen
@normeisen.bsky.social

DOJ's woeful attempt to disqualify Judge Reyes in the golf course case is rightly DENIED We will see the Trump administration in court bright and early Monday morning on our preliminary injunction motion!

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger.substack.com

Pete Hegseth is treating death and cruelty as entertainment. The news of a livestreamed execution for the Fort Hood murderer is beneath our military. I have no sympathy for Nidal Hasan, he massacred 13 innocent people in '09, but justice is solemn, it shouldn't be a spectacle. Link below ⬇️

The Recovering Sales Guy
@cvwelsh.bsky.social

Use fivecallsdotorg to stay organized and demand that your representatives stop this attempted coup before they become irrelevant and before the real terror begins. This flood of attempted autocracy is intended to make us give up. Don’t! #democracy #government

The Recovering Sales Guy
@cvwelsh.bsky.social

Winning means more than just an election- it is a long game with a plan that has many parts. And it is far more than just pushing back against the latest outrage designed to keep us occupied.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"The future of collective bargaining in Wisconsin now depends on the future of the state supreme court, just as unwinding the gerrymander did. That’s precisely why the multipronged, incremental approach that Wikler and other Dems have undertaken is so effective."

publicnotice.coSearching for a ray of hope? Look at Wisconsin.Stringing together small wins can lead to big progress.
The Recovering Sales Guy
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Gosh, he spent a quarter billion to buy a President, little wonder he thinks he owns the country. Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump- www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

reuters.comMusk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect TrumpElon Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help Donald Trump win November's presidential election, according to new filings, underscoring the influence one of the world's wealthiest people had on this year's White House race.
The Recovering Sales Guy
@cvwelsh.bsky.social

Republican’s in the 80’s: “Give us the money! It will trickle down to everyone!” R’s in the 90’s: “Let us keep it! We earned it, it’s ours!” R’s now: “We want it all. Every last dollar.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

open.substack.comDecember 4, 2024In 1883, as the Republican Party moved into full-throated support for the industrialists who were concentrating the nation’s wealth into their own hands while factory workers stayed above the poverty ...
The Recovering Sales Guy
@cvwelsh.bsky.social

“How can this keep happening?!? I am enraged that [this event, article, story, video] is getting all the attention! Look, I’ll include the link to it so you can click on it, too and share my outrage! How do they get away with this?”[includes link so you can engage with the outrage, too.]

The Recovering Sales Guy
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Taxes are, apparently not for the rich. (Spoiler: you pay more of your income than they do.) taxfoundation.org/data/all/fed...

taxfoundation.orgThe Top 1 Percent’s Tax Rates Over TimeIn the 1950s, when the top marginal income tax rate reached 92 percent, the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid an effective rate of only 16.9 percent.
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

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